Bitcoin Digest

The most Important news and charts about Bitcoin.

[Bitcoin Digest @btc_digest]

The most important table in the world right now. #Bitcoin

[Samson Mow @Excellion]

Everything reminds me of #Bitcoin.

[Documenting ₿itcoin 📄 @DocumentingBTC]

The oldest producer of clean renewable electricity in the United States, Mechanicville Hydroelectric was saved by bitcoin mining.

The Mechanicville hydroelectric plant in New York dates to 1897. It was built on the Hudson River to supply electricity to General Electric’s operations in Schenectady. The company has since long abandoned the facility.

In 2021, the hydroelectric dam could not make a profit and was going to be decommissioned. Bitcoin mining fixed that when the CEO decided to use some of the electricity to run Bitcoin miners.

CEO Jim Besha said selling power to the grid brought in three cents per kilowatt-hour. Bitcoin mining brought in approximately three times as much.

He was buying used mining equipment and converting the bitcoin into cash rather than keeping it as an investment. This saved the facility.

[Documenting ₿itcoin 📄 @DocumentingBTC]

A bitcoin prize was encrypted into human DNA

DNA, the building blocks and foundational structure of life itself, can store computer data by translating information into sequences of its four chemical letters.

In January of 2015, geneticist Nick Goldman distributed tubes of synthetic DNA at Davos. The encoded files included the private key to 1 bitcoin.

Participants had three years to sequence the DNA and recover it. Belgian doctoral student Sander Wuyts solved the challenge shortly before the January 2018 deadline.

His first attempts failed because of an erroneous line in his decoding program, but removing it produced the files and the spendable key.

[Bitcoin Digest @btc_digest]

@AncapAir I wish they didn't do anything, it's a lot worse than that.

[Hugh Hendry Acid Capitalist TV @hendry_hugh]

‼️𝚢𝚎𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚊𝚖𝚎 𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚕𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚊𝚌𝚌𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚔 𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚝𝚞𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍𝚗’𝚝 𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚋𝚒𝚝𝚌𝚘𝚒𝚗: 𝚌𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚍𝚢, 𝚕𝚒𝚚𝚞𝚒𝚍𝚒𝚝𝚢 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚙𝚘𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚕 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚖𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗.‼️

[Hugh Hendry Acid Capitalist TV @hendry_hugh]

𝚋𝚒𝚝𝚌𝚘𝚒𝚗 𝚊𝚝 $𝟷 𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚜𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚜 𝚏𝚞𝚌𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚍. 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚝𝚘𝚗 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚋𝚎𝚐𝚞𝚗 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚕 𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚒𝚝 𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚒𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎.

[Eli Nagar @EliNagar]

Never be so sure that you stop checking.

[Bitcoin Digest @btc_digest]

@stevensongs When is he apologizing for his body of work?

[Bitcoin Digest @btc_digest]

@HapistRitler She's better than good. She's good enough.

[Bitcoin Digest @btc_digest]

@robprogressive Pointless unless you have something no one else can print.

[Documenting ₿itcoin 📄 @DocumentingBTC]

In March of 2013, Hal Finney published his iconic story “Bitcoin and me” on the BitcoinTalk forum.

He described being paralyzed by ALS and using an eye-tracking system to operate his computer. Programming bitcoin software had become much slower, but he was still doing it.

Hal was still contributing to the open-source bitcoin network, believing that bitcoin could help change the world.

He had worked on a small controller so he could adjust his wheelchair, and he was developing a bitcoin wallet security project. He described that project as nearly finished, apart from documentation.

[Bitcoin Digest @btc_digest]

@MediaSOI He just arrived and he's already helping, what's your excuse?

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@SoundDobad I'm highly profitable too if I don't count rent and don't eat anything.

[Mark Harvey @thepowerfulHRV]

BTC's hash rate has fallen 17% as power gets redirected to AI.

This is the most significant bear market in Bitcoin's hash rate in its entire history.

[Bitcoin News @BitcoinNewsCom]

FRUIT FLY BRAIN MINES BITCOIN AT POTENTIAL 10X ASIC EFFICIENCY

Introducing HashFly by @FutureBit, an experimental Bitcoin miner based on a reconstructed fruit fly brain using 2,914 real neuron connections to run SHA-256.

The team says that if the system could be scaled using actual organic neurons, it could theoretically hash at roughly 1 W/TH, around 10x more energy efficient than leading 3nm silicon ASICs.

For now, it’s an experiment. But biologically inspired Bitcoin mining is officially a thing.

[Bitcoin Digest @btc_digest]

@DisgracedProp How come it's okay to write a Marxist analysis, but not a Nazi analysis? Marxism caused more harm in total.

[Bitcoin Digest @btc_digest]

@ZoomerHistorian Only 1.5% flies in your soup, sir.

[Bitcoin Digest @btc_digest]

@realRetroPC 1997?

[Bitcoin Digest @btc_digest]

@PenaltyBoxAct "amorality" and "consequentiality" does not effect the extent of the harm

[The Bitcoin Conference @TheBitcoinConf]

#Bitcoin is 1% of global money 👀